The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 12
Meanwhile the enemy discharged several thousand arrows, many of which stuck in my hands and face.
Who acts: enemy · What happens: discharge · To what, where: thousand arrows
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enemy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 3 enemy | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 enemy | det |
| 3 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | discharged | discharge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 enemy | acl |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thousand | amod |
| 6 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 arrows | nummod |
| 7 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 discharged | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stuck | punct |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stuck | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 many | fixed |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 stuck | nsubj |
| 12 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 enemy | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hands | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stuck | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 face | cc |
| 17 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hands | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 enemy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discharge | participle | the enemy not said here | thousand arrows | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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